Persist, pivot, or concede. It’s up to us, our choice every time.
Me? I haven’t made all A’s in the art of living. But I give a damn. And I’ll take an experienced C over an ignorant A any day.
I have a lot of proof that the world is conspiring to make me happy.
All destruction eventually leads to construction, all death eventually leads to birth, all pain eventually leads to pleasure. In this life or the next, what goes down will come up. It’s a matter of how we see the challenge in front of us and how we engage with it. Persist, pivot, or concede. It’s up to us, our choice every time.
A denied expectation hurts more than a denied hope, while a fulfilled hope makes us happier than a fulfilled expectation.
Sometimes which choice you make is not as important as making a choice and commiting to it.
Make my life my favorite movie. Live my favorite character. Write my own script. Direct my own story. Be my biography. Make my own documentary on me. Non-fiction, live, not recorded. Time to catch that hero I’ve been chasing. See if the sun will melt the wax that holds my wings or if the heat is just a mirage. Live my legacy now. Quit acting like me. Be me.
No longer chasing butterflies, Camila and I planted our garden so they could come to us.
Life is our resume. It is our story to tell, and the choices we make write the chapters. Can we live in a way where we look forward to looking back?
Guilt and regret kill many a man before their time.
Catching greenlights is about skill: intent, context, consideration, endurance, anticipation, resilience, speed, and discipline. We can catch more greenlights by simply identifying where the red lights are in our life, and then change course to hit fewer of them.
The problems we face today eventually turn into blessings in the rearview mirror of life. In time, yesterday’s red light leads us to a greenlight. All destruction eventually leads to construction, all death eventually leads to birth, all pain eventually leads to pleasure. In this life or the next, what goes down will come up. It’s a matter of how we see the challenge in front of us and how we engage with it. Persist, pivot, or concede. It’s up to us, our choice every time.
Great leaders are not always in front, they also know who to follow.
To lose the power of confrontation is to lose the power of unity.
The sooner we become less impressed with our life, our accomplishments, our career, our relationships, the prospects in front of us – the sooner we become less impressed and more involved with these things – the sooner we get better at them. We must be more than just happy to be here.
Now you can shut that door on me or we can walk through it together.
We cannot fully appreciate the light without the shadows.
They are not trying to win arguments of right or wrong. They are trying to understand each other.
Can we live in a way where we look forward to looking back?
I’ve found that a good plan is to first recognize the problem, then stabilize the situation, organize the response, then respond.